One of the most under-taught tools in mathematics is the autocorrelation function. Autocorrelation functions are extremely useful whenever data are related to time or are…
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From the classical application in professional chess to FiveThirtyEight’s basketball and baseball models to even online esports and gaming like League of Legends, the Elo…
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In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of the exponential distribution in sports. The exponential distribution is very closely related…
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Every once in a while, NBA fans will look at each other and say “sheesh, last year’s draft might have been the best NBA draft…
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There is little that is more valuable to a basketball team than having one of the best shooters in the NBA. Because the NBA preseason…
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The 2022 MLB Playoffs are here and that means its time to preview what we think is likely to happen. This article contains our estimated…
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In this edition of Teaching Math With Sports we look at hypothesis tests. In particular, we explore a few examples of hypothesis testing for means…
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In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at applications of critical points and Fermat’s Theorem in sports. Throughout a Calculus course, most…
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In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at the Poisson distribution in sports. The Poisson distribution is a fundamental distribution in statistics…
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In this edition of Teaching Math with Sports, we look at the binomial distribution. The binomial distribution is one of the simplest yet most ubiquitous…
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